Variety (Sep 1938)

60 VARIETY LITERATI Mustering War Correspondents The AP, UP and INS are mustering their forces of potential war cor- respondents, in anticipation of set- ting up.foreign news bases. All pass- ports of former overseas journalists are being renewed and elaborate plans being laid. INS (Hearst) fig- ures on Geneva or Aix-les-Bains (French spa) for its press headquar- ters. AP has Deauville or Marseilles in mind. UP will similarly set up either in France or a neutral coun- try. Idea is to have a field press head- quarters sufficiently removed from, the potential war zones, free of com- munications interference and also as free of official censorship, outside of the usual press intelligence that's perforce set up by the military in every country, depending on the sympathies of that nation. Press tors. Number of other literary fig- ures will form an advisory board. According to plans for the mag, which will begin publication upon the release of its two sponsors, it will be an all-round publication to con- tain all types of fiction, sports, humor, cartoons, photographs and even musical compositions. Husted has had show biz connec- tions. Food for Thought Hunter Gets Promoted After some years as business and advertising manager of Silver "creen and Screenland, Paul C. Hunter was upped to publisher and v.p. of the two film fan magi; by Vior G. Heimbucher, prez of the publishing company. Hunter was with the Hearst organization before going with the Heimbucher publications, Robert L. Johnson, formerly v.p. Akron, Sept. 27. Walter 'Buck' Coyle, erst- while city editor of the folded Times-Press here, has gone from dishing news to dishing food. Some time ago Coyle opened a confectionary near the Times-Press building. When his paper folded, Coyle collected his dismissal pay and went into the restaurant busi- ness full time, now catering to more than 300 Beacon Journal employees wl'O Lave taken over the old Times-Press plant. Wednesday; September 28, 1938 of limited editions, he is also an I Burroughs Buys Pyramid |, epicure of no small reputation. Gaige Lewis Robert Burroughs has recently authored a booklet for the bought out interest of Paul H. For- spice organization on the uses of ma n in Pyramid Press, book pub. spice in food, which led to the ar- lishers, and is now operating the rangement for a monthly column. | concern on his own. Plans an extended publishing poi. New Payoff I icy, ranging from Action and juven. Colophon, the quarterly magazine Jks *° ^' ActS ?%^ a11 Edi for book collectors-those who can Jorlal duties of Formari taken over afford $2.8C a copy or pay $10 a bjBurroughs, who continues as gen. year-has an unusual method of pay- «Jl manager of the publishing or- ment they call 'honorarium,' which. | ganizauon, that the mag buys an article by is donating a number of published vol- umes, runs of the particular article, and six copies of the issue contain- ing it, all coming to $5ft in value. LITERATI OBITS THIS WEEK John G. Herring, 48, editor of Tif- ton (Ga.) Gazette, died unexpectedly of a heart attack Sept. 18 in Atlanta. Hewitt Turns Publisher Add to film writers who like the I there wS"m6A Communications, is | of Time mag, was engaged by the ^^^^g^ HewKt *?n two mags to serve in.an advisory ca- I w«*t.» c »» c <- __ ... making all the preliminary arrange ments. Since volumes of Colophon rate high Herring's eldest brother, Lewis Bur- in rare book store circulars, mebbe ton Herring, died of a heart ailment some of the poor contribs sell 'em | in Lynchburg, Va„ eight days ago. Charles H. Lincoln, 68, feature ed- itor of the Boston Post, died Sept Howey Hypoes Chi H.-E. | 4 at the Boston City hospital of after being pacity. Johnsoi recently acquired association wito Cyril M. Hailing Wa i te r Howey, new publisher of cerebral thrombosis , nnntrol of Promenade the class mae Hewitt is operating the Press of the h H earst morning tab Herald-and- stricken at his desk. „ Back-of-the-front coverage would, £°f ft* £™ Sd"^^ has stepped days he would have completed his of course be chiefly via shortwave - m interfere i& hi choice l™. 1 ^^ 0 ™ up all departments of the paper. .41st year with the Post. He served radio, but naturally subject to strict ^ tfam o£ tnat publica tion. | ™Aj"£ t „%? 5*L2fnn I Has brought in two ex-editors of the | as city editor, Sunday editor and military censorship. ^.ISL^thf niffk a |£nintf who I Hearst evening American, spotting I managing editor, before taking up Nation's Staff Shifts I C oS'of a long S oSSSfi? ? Ri " ck ^ SS f ^ J? *n *l M ,S^r^2?h' T Steinbeck Turning to Stage Departure of Max Lerner as edi- i ish printers and publishers. Came Harry Reitlinger on the city desk. than 25 years ago. Survived by wife, John Steinbeck tells intimates on tor of Tne Nation, to take the post over here shortly after the end of Howey has put the H.-E. on the two brothers ana a sister, the Coast that after he completes of pro fessor of government at Wil- the World War and is -carrying on air for a six-times weekly ride every Maurice F. O'Brien, 62, ace Roch- the novel on which he is now work- ii ams College, was followed by a in the family tradition. Hewitt, who evening, with various sub-editors as ester, N. Y., reporter at the turn of ing- he will devote himself there- numD er of editorial changes on the is from Connecticut, taught English guesters on the 'News Behind the the century and more recently a after to playwriting. | publication. Exactly why Steinbeck will for- Three new^ regular contributors sake prose not disclosed, but can't I will be John Gunther, Archibald be lack of appreciation. His books I MacLeish and Helen Woodward. I. before taking up screen writing. News' series. Dell's One-Shots New affiliate formed by Dell Pub- 'Socker' Coe for Gov.? Charles Francis Coe, radio com- i U4II1C „ „ ^ w •have been exceedingly well regarded I F. Stone, of the N. Y. Post, and Keith I mentator and writer, may enter the I.. p" u '"i lfl 7nnp £hnrpnhli*h and big sellers. Playwriting is not Hutchison, formerly of the London raC e for governorship of Florida. JJfJ^J ^ '? a " ea t> ~ n indicates new for Steinbeck. He dramatized staff of the N. Y. Herald Tribune, During his recent trip north, Coe ")* an °': a _one shots his own novel, 'Of Mice and Men,' become associate editors, with Max- shared a speaking program with Mr" JJJ ou 1 ™ e . larlance f or I on the Bay City (Mich.) Times, the and piece was as successful on the well S. Stewart continuing in a like Gov. Cross of Connecticut and was " t f Siiffnr hut a Lansing Capital News, Detroit Free capacity. Freda Kirchwey, publisher, introduced by the chairman as the publications gotten out tor out a | ^ Z^JTu ^ +u „ — copyreader oh the Rochester Jour- nal-American until it folded a year ago, died Sept. 19 after a short ill- ness. Survived by son, Emmett O'Brien, political reporter on the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Frank O'Hare, 29, former reporter stage as it was between book covers, Decision of Steinbeck to abandon | continues as executive editor, prose for plays closely' follows that of Thornton Wilder. Also a leading American novelist, Thornton Wilder, ext governor of Florida.' I single issue. ■ _ , _ - Coe practices law at Palm Beach. One-Shot Publishing Co headed | %™ s ; SL^?lhL?J"L and has received many requests to by Leon Stein, regularly traffic man- consider the question of becoming ager for the Dell firm. Editorial aid | candidate for governor. Only re- for the one-shots will be taken from a ent . and editor of the United States the regular Dell staff. Review died Sept. 21 of heart dis- 1 ease at his home in Philadelphia. Deardon in 1921 became head of the Aimee Sues Look | Review, succeeding his father, who Press, Detroit Times and the Chicago •Ep' Hoyt Jumps Again Palmer 'Ep' Hoyt has been ap- following the successful presenta- I pointed general manager of the Ore- ... ., , . . tion of his 'Our Town,' still current, gonian, Portland, largest daily in the cently, he said, has he given the mat made known that he would write Pacific northwest. Ten years ago | ter serious thought, plays only in the future. Still an- Palmer Hoyt was writing reviews of other who said he was abandoning the local shows. He rose quickly to I World Observer to Resume prose for plays is J. B. Priestley, managing editorship of the paper. In I The World Observer; monthly mag Aimee Semple McPherson, Los founded the magazine in Chicago 70 Angeles evangelist, filed a $1,500,000 years ago and brought the publica- libel suit against Look mag as an tion offices to Philadelphia after they answer to its article, 'I Am God's were burned out by the great Chi- among the foremost contemporary the latest shake-up he was made of international affairs, whose pub British novelists. Priestley has since general manager of both news and Ucation was halted by Lucis Publish written a number of plays, and most advertising departments. ing Co. recently, will resume Pub . Publicitv Aeen f published in I ca( m flre of them successful, but he continues i n the same shake-up, C. O. Chat- .Ration's sponsors not decided on Best PuWici^ Agent, puonsnea in ca go flre. to sneak in a new book now and terton was made manager of the fate of resumptionJmt it's not likely the bept. lJ issue, then. paper's radio stations, KGW and to J esume before the new year Co-defendants in the suit are J, KEX, replacing Carey Jennings. L Montt^ had a pretentious ^ & 1 July, 1937, edited jointly by Alice A. A., charged with writing the arti Philly Guild's Defense Fund Hoyt and Chatterton have top com- J"""** D * ^" Ke *± A -> Newspaper Guild of Philly and Lands of the properties unde? O. L. I"? 8 -:* v? n «* *u. ^i? a who WlU I cle ' Camden voted three to one last, week | Price, publisher, to double its dues for the next five months to raise a $5,000 defense fund. I Sheed & Ward's Reprints Action is the result of the firing of | Anglo - American - Canadian book again be at the helm. Lucis Publishing Co. is also a book | publishing house, getting' out non- fiction. 32 employes by J. David Stern, pub- publishing firm of Sheed & Ward lisher of the Philly Record.' will take a flier with reprints. To Record unit of the Guild also re- experiment with six reissues, three jected last week a proposal by. Stern in October and three in December,. „ ... that present wages be 'frozen' for an in paper covers at 50c and cloth at book Publishing Co., which gets indefinite period, stopping the peri- $1. Will be known as Unicorn started after some months of prepa Guild Signs 3 Mags Ken, Coronet and Esquire mags have gone 100% union in Chicago. Newspaper Guild signatured for collective bargaining. CHATTER Waldo Frank back from Europe. Burton Rascoes off for Oklahoma. May Sarton back in New York from Europe. Murrow McCurnin has joined Look as fashion editor. Henry R. Luce has bought a new estate in Greenwich, Conn. Eleanor Berdon, literary agency aide, has sold her own first story. John Gielgud has written his rem- iniscences. Macmillan publishing in Sponsors 'Five-Dime Books' Latest addition to list of paper- cover book publishers is Five D's NEW PERIODICALS F , . __ Hollywood Woman, new femme odic increases provided in the Rec- Series, and if getting across will be ration. Will sponsor a series of c i ass ma g w ith publication headquar- , ^. ord's Guild shop contract. Stern regularly continued. American is- 'Five-Dime Books'; hence the title, ters in New York. Publisher is Ben 1N * *• asked the Guild's acquiescence, he sues of the reprints will go to around with an occasional volume to sell for Morrison, with E. Travis Haenisch | Hugh Wiley a newly wed. Bride admitted under questioning by the 5.000 copies in each price edition at 10 dimes, these with hard covers. as general manager, and James M. shop committee, not so much for the ^st. Non-fiction only, and on a variety o'Connell, executive director. Prem- small saving it would mean, but to other new activity of American of subjects. H. Mayer Daxlanden i se of the new periodical, which is give him a point in dealing with branch of Sheed & Ward is its own heads the firm as president. Jack to appear monthly, is that Holly other unions on the paper. He said t ecture bureau for the scribblers on Dames is vice-prez. Two five- wood is now the women's style cen the Guild would be 'cooperating.' | *, ts «°™ C ; Winston Co. is un- | dimers to go out within a month, ter, and has worked up a fashion Unit, in its reply, declared it didn't d .e?^ three more to follow shortl y advisory board consisting of fashion feel that Stern had been 'cooperat- | gj 1 ™* Jouse^arrangmg lecture dates | thereafter. 1 . . _ ing' during the recent firings, so it 6aw no reason for giving up anything protected in its contract. is the former Judith Harrison Isen- berg. Ira Wolfert has sold another story to Harper's mag, making the third in a row. J. P. Lohman has quit as editor of , . ... . ... T , Homeflnder mag. Prefers the pub- designers at the various studios. In- ii c ity biz elude Orry Kelly, Milo Anderson ._. . " ,, , . . . „ , Bouve's Hat in Ring land Howard Shoup, of Warners; Sherma 4 n his. nov- » , e ^ Can PreSS 4 J Walter Bouve, Jr., veteran copy- Robert Kalloch, Columbia; Edward ele t te . ^f vi f, w ' to Satevepost for Paul Scott Mowrer, president of rea der on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Stevenson and Renie, RKO; Royer, earlv Publication, tne American Press Society, will tossing his hat in the political, ring Gwen Wakeling and Herschel, 20th- Perhaps only sister trio success- snortly name a nominating commit- | again this year, running for Congress Fox; Ernest Schraps, Hal Roach; fully engaged as flctioneers are the in November on Independent ticket | Dolly Tree, Metro, and Vera West, Seiferts — Shirley, Elizabeth and Universal. Two fashion editors, with Adele. He ran six years ago for a seat I Edna Davis in New York, and Isobel Gene Fowler sailing the South but was trimmed badly. Newspaper- | Ashe on the Coast. | Seas and writing a foreword for Busy Fanny Ellsworth •SS2«;r El&itior^ will be held early in Na° I ta .? 6 * the Newsstand Fiction Unit, which vem ber ehe serves in an advispry capacity, is additionally turrtng publisher on I nrt Al 2?.xi ntment of the nominating man has been long active in. Pitts- Jack and Jill, forthcoming chil- Russell Birdwell's book, 'I Ring her own. Has organized the Phame committee was delayed because of burgh politics, stumping for G.O.P. dren's mag of the Curtis Publishing <-«- —J I action to be taken cn constitutional practically every election and serv- Co., will be out later than originally was^ delayed because of | burgh politics, stumping for G.O.P. [dren's mag of the Curtis Publishing | Doorbells, Publishing Co., and is preparing a mag to appear in November. , , , . . . . ■.„ ■ Phame Publishing Co. will be c ^ a number jf changes in titles committeeman. 1 and duties of national officers. Mem- bers of the society Iwill vote on the proposals as soon as the orgamza- | There is a new reiiodal m »«- I h.ll n» with M r = E s t..» I Marion Saunders, story agent, has TS^ST^i. I i n Ai e X eral stretehcs « i[5S^ 'iehStaW ioTow aTound | ^^"^SS^^t quartered with the Newsstand Fic- tion Unit in Rockefeller Genter, tirhere Miss Ellsworth spends a num Oct. 1, monthly wiU not be out until tnose editorial offices where they are Oct. 28 bearing a November date- glimpsed for the flrst time . line. Editor will be Mrs. Ada Camp- bell Rose, with Mrs. E. S. Lee as Hudson, N, Y„ Regional —,. —o „ . , , — I there is a new regional maga- , w *«i x„ AiJ . ^. u , . , . ... . ber of hours each day. Rest of the h ? n J le S al counsel completes study z i ne , of Hudson Valley, N. Y„ pub- art editor. Content will be divided gon( l abroad ln connection with a day Miss Ellsworth is at the Eltinge of the measures. lished at Hudson, N. Y., called Echo, between art and editorial matter. number of foreign-language puMi- Warner offices. — It is drawing upon local writers of Youth Today, digest mag edited by catl0ns of G °ne With the Wind. New publishing enterprise makes Coast Coin for Frlede the region, William Seabrook, Paul Harry Miller, has for its purpose to Lowell Limpus, political writer for Miss Ellsworth unique in the indus- Donald Frlede, former partner in Corey, John Wilstach and Shaemus bring good reading to adolescents the N. Y. Daily News, has written a try, as she will be the only person Covici-Friede, is readying a new O'Sheel. The editors are Ralph S. and to enable youth to 'express its book-length biog of Mayor LaGuar- simultaneously working for two pub- Publishing house with Hollywood Thorn, Jr., and Carroll E. Osborn. innermost thoughts.' Monthly will dia in collaboration with Capt. Burr lishing houses and operating a third backing. Since severing connections Contents article- ani fiction, with on her own. Title and nature of with the Covici-Friede firm, he has farm and home, little theatres, and her own forthcoming mag is being been connected with the Zeppo Marx local histo: y all balanced. kept secret for the time bengi Prisoners' Magr for Prisoners Two inmates of Michigan State Prison, Roland Fayette Coon and Wayne Joseph Husted. shortly to be released, are planning the publica- tion of a national monthly mag aimed principally at the 200,000 inmates of the country's state and federal prisons. They will call the publica- tion America's Unknown. They claim to have already secured the services of Charles E.lward Russell, former Chicago newspaper publisher, and* Paul Schubert, novelist, as edi- agency and later conducted his own advisory service for writers. New company's headquarters will be in New York. carry both fact and fiction. I Leyson. Entertainment Guide and Teachers' Howard Merrill, 23, writing the Travelogue titles of two new semi- daily 'This Minute* column for Es- monthlies being published by the quire Features, Chicago, is figured Donoghue Goes WB I Ray Lessieu Publications. Firm I one of the youngest syndicated col- Frank Lee Donoghue, N. Y. Amer- headed by Marie Stanton Lessieu, umnists in the business, ican feature writer, has been signed wi th Ray Lessieu editing. Herrick Publishing Co. has been by Warners to cook up an original. | Contemporary Jewish Record, new organized by Muriel S. Herrick to bi-monthly review of events of Jew- issue a limited number of volumes Gaige's Spice Column I ish interest, sponsored by American of non-fiction. Will specialize m Rights to subtitle of now defunct Jewish Committee. Periodical will books of particular interest to Literary Digest, The Spice of Life, carry original articles as well as re- femmes. . have been acquired by the American prints of important items from other Channing Pollock, dramatist-author, turns to New York around Oct. 1- to Spice Tirade Assn., which proposes to sources, all aimed at the protection and Stanley High, writer, will speak resume. Rachel Vixman will again use it as heading for a monthly of civil and religious rights of at meetings of the Eastern Zone Con- be an associate. column on spice news to be written Jews throughout the world. Harry ference of the New York State As formerly, the Grossel books by Cr6sby Gaige. Schneiderman and Sidney Wallach, Teachers' Assn., at the Palace theatre will be non-fiction only. Run mostly Gaige has many interests besides co-editors, with Abraham G. Duker and Harmanus Bleecker Hall, Al- to artistic subjects. J his theatrical ones. A book publisher.l managing editor. | bany, Oct. 2. Frances Grossel to Resume Suspension of the book publishing activities of Frances Grossel is only temporary. Femme publisher rus- ticating in Pennsylvania, and re-